cold dark matter

Artists were invited to respond to the utterance Galileo made whilst under pressure to deny his observation that the earth revolves around the sun .'..and yet the earth doth move.'

Galileo's discovery that the earth orbits the sun and the difficulty he had convincing the church that he was right illustrates how new discoveries and ways of thinking often upset accepted norms. This projection seeks to conjure up strange, unformed and nebulous things in the mind. Cold Dark Matter is thought to manifest itself as some as-yet-undetected exotic particle, but one with very specific properties. It does not interact, reflect or radiate energy in the electromagnetic spectrum and it's existence is a way of explaining the lack of matter in the universe.

As a newcomer to astronomy, the challenge was to try and imagine CDM as a perceptible energy rather than something that is recorded through scientifc instruments and maths. The video implys an intangible pulsating force and the accompanying sound is suggestive of cosmic energies rushing around the universe.